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June 23rd Playlist:
It’s On: Kylie Auldist (last Women of Soul happening next Tuesday night at the Toff, don’t miss it!)
A Song for You: Paige Duggan
Point the Bone: Dubmarine (Sam’s choice- through Amrap, a 9 piece reggae/dub act from Brisbane)
The Kids are Coming: The Bon Scotts (and chat with Damien, don’t forget to check out their awesome stop animation film clips)
I Want You: The Indian Skies
If I Think of Love: OP8 (for Freya)
We Like War: The Bon Scotts
Perfect Like You: Dan Rolls (Ballarat musician joining us in the studio on July 7th!)
Unfinished Sympathy: Massive Attack (for Loz)
Feral: Radiohead
Daniel: Bat for Lashes
Black Widow: osh10 (Melbourne act launching second album at the Toff on July 19th)
Sharp Love: Laneway
Sunflower: Low
Like Me Meaner: Lanie Lane (playing with Clare Bowditch at Karova on July 13th, exciting!)
Running Up that Hill: Kate Bush
Borderline: The Flaming Lips feat. Stardeath and White Dwarf
Like I Never Was at All: Juan Alban (playing Karova tomorrow night with Freya Hollick and Aaron from Matheson)
Winter Sigh: Dishpan Fingers
Here Comes Trouble Man: Underminers feat Freya Hollick (Popboomerang records)
Baby It’s Cold Outside: Liz Frencham
Laneway Loveliness
Good vibes abounded in the Tinderbox last night (despite guitar mishaps and coughing fits!)-thanks to our guests Laneway, and great to have Lauren back on the air.
Here’s what we played:
Road to Somewhere: Goldfrapp
Anti-Love Song: Betty Davis
Misery (Old Time Demo Mix): Victoriana Gaye
Laneway live in the studio- Red Lantern & If I Went Away
Turbine (the new single)
Glory Box: Kram
From Dub Four: Clive Hylton and the Upsetters
Lowrider: War
Song of Solomon: Kate Bush (from Director’s Cut)
Season’s Trees: Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi
Bukva F: Oleg Kastrow (for Mick Dog) from Ruskie Wig Out
Psycho Killer: Talking Heads
Pass the Wine (Sophia Loren): Rolling Stones
Penny Drop: Speed Orange (fundraiser gig coming up)
Deeper Understanding: Kate Bush
It’s not the Spotlight: Beth Orton
Super Iglesias: Supersonic Future
Not Gonna Let You: Randa & the Soul Kingdom (Women of Soul)
Check out Handle with Care artist Cath Johnston, currently at Backspace- here
June 9th, Guests galore
Playlist
Our Generation: John Lengend & the Roots (for Marc)
EARL LEONARD- sporting a lovely teapot badge that I didn’t get a chance to comment on-love the tea! (Joan was also rocking the tea at her show at the Athenaeum Wednesday night-awesomeness!)
Forever and a Year: Joan as Policewoman
Chat with Lou Ridsdale about the reopening of the Palais in Hepburn Springs (can’t wait to hit that art deco danceflooor!)
I am the Devil they Call Love: Speed Orange (check out the film here)
L’Accordeoniste: Martha Wainwright
Chat with Jemma Mathers about exciting upcoming Ballarat event Kaleidoscope
Wake Up: Rene Sephton and Etienne Dinanga
Visit from Johnny Rock and the Limits
and we heard their hit single Shoeshine!
Postcards from Footscray: Way Out West
Game is My Middle Name: Betty Davis (for Lauren)
Tim Rogers at the ABC
Red in Your Eyes: Sweethearts
No-one in Their Right Mind: Young Werther
I Can’t Stand Losing You: Johnny Rock and the Limits
Feel the Vibe: Candice Monique and the Optics (Women of Soul at the Toff)
The fabulous Phil from Off the Tracks with local musician Marie Casanova.
What a night of great music! Catch you next week. Over and out.
Go Community Radio!
A huge thanks to PBS in Melbourne for my prize pack (won when renewing my membership to Soul Time- ah Vince, and he’s been on air doing the show since I was 8 months old, very cool!)
Such a great mix of music (not to mention vouchers, movie passes, herbal skin care, chocolate and an awesome thermos!)-I have to say I’m particularly excited about Russkie Wig-Out, as well as some Kate Bush, Bobby and Johhny and great Melbourne jazz outfit Way Out West, among lots more that we’ll be exploring with you all on the show over the next weeks and months. Exciting!! x
Bat for Lashes at the Sydney Opera House!
Lauren and I arrived back from Sydney last night elated, inspired and above all, thankful, for beautiful music and good people; friends old and new.
The Bat for Lashes Australian debut (at the Opera House no less!) on Friday June 3rd was simply amazing, featuring a set of spindly trees and black and white projections as backdrop to the gorgeous Natasha Khan and band + string quartet doing their beautiful batty business.
Khan spread her joyous spirit, expressed through body and voice, delighting with red duvet (aka doona!) dress and dance moves. The talented band, including Sarah Jones’ mesmerising drums and renowned guitarist Charlotte Hatherley both joining in on vocals, added to the simultaneously intimate and spectacular feast of sound and vision.
It may sound suspiciously like a gush fest (something we may be guilty of on the show on occasion!) but the unique energy and quality of this music and show created a sense of coming together to contemplate and celebrate the mysteries and everyday experiences of life. And I’ll go as far as saying, for me atleast, summoned a particularly feminine experience… a kind of ritual that may have existed once in a religious context, a sort of music as church (including some uninhibited dancing for the great song Daniel!)
The encore featuring Khan and strings, allowed her to pay homage to some of her varied influences including Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, & The Cure (who also played as part of the Vivid Festival). It all got a little bit too much for me when they did a version of Wild is the Wind, one of my all-time favourite songs. Khan herself said she was feeling quite emotional and may “have a blubber” which I then proceeded to do myself!
Meeting some Sydney strangers outside the gig- who then kindly took us around the fabulous light installations along the harbour and for a drink at a local pub- they wondered how it could be that many people had never heard of Bat for Lashes- so if you’re one of them, grab the 2 albums and if you ever get a chance to see this gal and her musicians live-grab the opportunity! Truly inspiring stuff.
& A big thankyou to all the people that made us Melbournian/Ballaratians so welcome on our Sydney adventure. We were also lucky enough to be invited to see young Manchester band Wu Lyf at Sydney community radio FBI‘s new performance venue, another special experience.
Stay tuned for our little film about the trip!
Big love x